When my daughter was in college, she went to a church gathering of fellow college students. She was struggling with certain aspects of her faith and asked questions of the group, hoping to get answers that would help her understand Christianity better. Instead, after she had been there awhile, she Read more…
Aren’t Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism basically the same? No! And not just because Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”[1] Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, known as the “Buddha,” which means one who is “awakened” or “enlightened.” One Read more…
In 1633, sixty-eight-year-old astronomer Galileo Galilei was tried and condemned by the Inquisition for advocating the “heresy” that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but that it instead rotated around the Sun. The Church forced Galileo to recant. The Church grounded its position in scripture.[1] The 17th Read more…